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Interposition; intervention. Derham.

In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.

The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.

Intervention; interposition. [Obs.] Heylin.

The act of interposing; interposition; intervention.

The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. Dryden.

A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Intervention; interposition. [R.]

nything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions. South.

s; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.

The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon.

iduals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.

Done in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. White.

designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.

der the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover. Can we . . . possibly his love desert Milton. When possibly I can, I will return. Shak.

sent; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse. Wrath shell be no more Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire. Milton.

hood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. Locke.

ospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.